Developers often dispute the merits of SQL as a legitimate programming language, but this misses the point. SQL is a powerful 4GL for accessing data.

Maybe it's not the sexiest programming language, but SQL continues to be important--at least according to one measurement.

While Python is IEEE's lead programming language, the spotlight is on SQL, which leads the organization's jobs rankings.

It found that Python, Java, SQL and JavaScript appeared the most frequently in developer job ads, each appearing in more than 50,000 listings on Indeed. All four saw a significant jump in demand ...

Top programming language for data science: Python still rules, followed by SQL But while data scientists might be creating clever data visualizations, many decision makers still don't understand ...